{"id":143144,"date":"2021-04-29T21:01:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T21:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=276932"},"modified":"2021-04-29T21:01:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T21:01:45","slug":"numbers-can-lie-the-science-behind-opinion-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/29\/numbers-can-lie-the-science-behind-opinion-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers can lie: the science behind opinion polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/opinion-polls.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"opinion polls\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/opinion-polls.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/opinion-polls-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>Opinion polls are given far too much importance, particularly given their methodology is not transparent; their language can shape answers; and only a small percentage of those who are contacted respond. Yet polls may also independently shape voting choices. Michael Tanner reports.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/numbers-can-lie-the-science-behind-opinion-polls\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion polls are given far too much importance, particularly given their methodology is not transparent; their language can shape answers; and only a small percentage of those who are contacted respond. Yet polls may also independently shape voting ch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143145,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143144\/revisions\/143145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}